Jennie Allen is the author of Get Out Of Your Head and the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering. She is a passionate leader following God's call on her life to catalyze a generation of women to live what they believe. Jennie has a master's in Biblical studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Zac and their four children. On this season of the podcast: Are your thoughts holding you captive? Our minds are anxious, nervous, distracted. I know what it’s like to swirl in a spiral of destructive thoughts, but I also know that we don’t have to stay stuck in toxic thinking patterns any longer.
God built a way for us to escape our downward spirals. Freedom comes when we refuse to be victims to our thoughts and realize we have already been equipped with power from God to fight and win the war for our minds. Our enemy is determined to get in our heads to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for the kingdom of God. But when we submit our minds to Christ, the promises and goodness of God flood our lives in remarkable ways. It starts in your head. And from there, the possibilities are endless. Get ready… Season 3 of the Made for This Podcast is HERE! I wrote Get Out of Your Head because I was sick of the war in my own head and in so many of yours. I pray the whole of humanity reads this and fights back with the God-given weapons we already have. You are in charge of your thoughts, they are not in charge of you. Let’s fight back together.
Emotional Maturity
We are all thinkers AND feelers. In this episode, Jennie provides insight into how our emotions draw us closer to God and each other with the ultimate goal for us to experience God in our lives in fullness and freedom.
MAIN POINTS:
Using the muscle of feeling will grow emotional maturity
What emotion are you afraid to feel?
Uncovering your emotions can feel like you are pulling out these threads that are tangling you up and while working through those emotions, those threads become these ropes that connect you to God.
Everywhere we look in the world, there is emotional brokenness. As a follower of Christ who brings Jesus into the world through our words and actions, we need to be spiritually AND emotionally mature.
Emotions are the greatest place of need and we enter the Gospel into the greatest place of need.
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2/6/2024 • 17 minutes, 3 seconds
Emotion & Thoughts - Are they the same?
This week, Jennie explains how we have power over our thoughts AND how our emotions are gifts from God meant to help us connect more deeply with Him and others. Jennie looks at moments in Jesus’ life where he felt feelings, where he encountered feelings and what he did with them.
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MAIN POINTS:
You have power from God to stop toxic thoughts.
Jennie looks at moments in Jesus’ life where he felt feelings, where he encountered feelings and what he did with them.
Our emotions are meant to be felt, not fixed.
Jennie sets up a process to help feel and process your emotions.
Our emotions are different than our thoughts, and we have authority over our thought life.
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1/30/2024 • 18 minutes, 17 seconds
Jennie Chats with Christian & Sadie Huff
In this episode, Jennie sits down with Sadie & Christian to talk about their new book and the complexity of relationships and emotions.
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MAIN POINTS:
4:51 How your relationship with God flows into your relationship with people.
5:31 The potential relationships have to draw you near God.
7:41 God wants to meet us in the complexity of emotions.
12:05 Christian shares about their involvement in their local community and the importance of being rooted in the community.
22:06 Emotions are gifts and they’re good things. They’re meant to tell us a lot about how to experience life.
28:36 What counseling has taught Jennie.
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1/23/2024 • 30 minutes, 30 seconds
John Mark Comer on Spiritual Maturity
In this episode Jennie and John Mark Comer talk about spiritual discipline, why spiritual maturity is not just more knowledge, anxiety, and how this all plays out in their real lives.
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MAIN POINTS:
2:46 Focusing on being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus and doing what Jesus did is the foundation to all of life.
3:15 John Mark shares his vision for life and how it all started.
4:29 Jennie and John Mark describe current church history, American christian culture, and the prevalent political polarization we live in.
8:03 What apprenticeship to Jesus means and how it captures a better mental model of what it means to learn from Jesus and disciple under Jesus.
13:16 John Mark describes how we as Christians learn the way of Jesus
26:00 The invitation of Jesus is not to “more” on top of your already-maxed-out life, but it is to breathe, slow down and reorder your life around what matters most.
28:33 One of the roles of anxiety and how to navigate it.
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1/16/2024 • 39 minutes, 17 seconds
What Happened at Auburn
200 people gave their lives to Jesus at Auburn University last week. I want to tell you the story! Let's talk about AuburnAnd don't forget that IF:Gathering 2024 is coming this Feb. 23-24, 2024, and before we sell out... we saved some seats at Dickie's Arena in Fort Worth, TX just for you! Get $20 off your ticket at if2024.com/tickets and use promo code MFT while tickets are available.HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter Sign up for texts from Jennie and Team, text the word PODCAST to 214-225-6267CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Pinterest
9/26/2023 • 15 minutes, 10 seconds
God is Real and Heaven is Coming
This bonus season is all about discipleship, and we are sharing never-before-heard talks from Jennie over the years. This episode is Jennie’s message from IF:Gathering 2023 where she is urging us to be ready and live like Jesus is coming soon. Learn what it means to live like God delights in us, what happens when we approach Him like children, and how to make the most of the time and place we find ourselves.Watch All of IF:2023 on DemandTAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Pinterest
9/21/2023 • 25 minutes, 15 seconds
Leading Through Fear and Discouragement
This bonus season is all about discipleship, and we are sharing never-before-heard talks from Jennie over the years. This episode is from a workshop from Jennie at IF:Lead 2020, which was just a few months after the whole world shut down. Though our day to day looks different than it did back then, God is still calling us to use the time we have in the places we are to do His will. Listen as Jennie shares how we can dream for what is to come even if we are in a season of unknown. You’ll want to grab a pen and notebook as we dive in!TAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | PinterestThanks, HelloFresh! Go to hellofresh.com/50MADEFORTHIS and use code 50MADEFORTHIS for 50% off + 15% off the next two months.
9/19/2023 • 24 minutes, 6 seconds
Take someone to coffee this week. (It could change their life...)
What if simple conversations over meals, just every day moments could change everything? What if just one step of obedience is how to help someone in your life know and love God? Well, don't wait. Listen to today's episode about the person who changed Jennie's life many years ago in college and how it all started with cookies and her simple yes. TAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Pinterest
9/14/2023 • 23 minutes, 51 seconds
How to Read the Bible
Learn how to read your Bible with Jennie. This bonus season is all about discipleship, and we are sharing some of Jennie's best conversations from over the years. This episode is from a study made in partnership with IF:Gathering and RightNow Media called "How to Read Your Bible". If you are a RightNow Media subscriber, you can find the full 6-week series streaming. If you want to do the study with friends, you can buy the study PDF for only $10! https://shoppe.ifgathering.com/products/how-to-read-your-bible-pdfTAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | PinterestThanks Prose Hair Care! - Get 15% off your first order by visiting prose.com/MADEFORTHIS - your healthy hair regimen customized for YOU!
9/12/2023 • 12 minutes, 40 seconds
Why Do We Struggle to Pray?
Here is another episode from the Made For This archives! If prayer is the greatest tool we have to connect with God, to fight sin, and see miracles in the lives of others, why is it so hard to do? Listen as Jennie shares the reasons we struggle, how to overcome those struggles, and what has changed her own prayer life over the last year.TAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | PinterestThank you to our partner, Athletic Greens! Visit drinkag1.com/madeforthis to receive a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs with your first purchase.
9/7/2023 • 22 minutes, 7 seconds
Do You Want to See Miracles? Pray
This bonus season is all about discipleship, and we are sharing never-before-heard talks from Jennie over the years. This episode is from a portion of Jennie’s message from Consecrate 2021. Though this conference was geared towards college students, the call to live our lives well and use the gifts and opportunities God has given us to share His love with others is for all of us. Listen as Jennie outlines how to lay down burdens, hand over sin and distractions, and live in the freedom and power that comes from Jesus.TAKE THE FRIEND TYPE QUIZ: What Type of Friend are You?HELPFUL LINKS: Join the newsletter | Sign up for texts from Jennie and team CONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | PinterestThanks, HelloFresh! Go to hellofresh.com/50MADEFORTHIS and use code 50MADEFORTHIS for 50% off + 15% off the next two months.
9/5/2023 • 34 minutes, 16 seconds
Strict Fundamentalism & Grace with Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey's story about growing up in a strict fundamentalist home and the painful experiences he endured in his childhood reveal an even greater story of God's unrelenting grace and mercy on each of our lives. You won't want to miss this episode about being hurt by the church, and rebuilding your faith when it seems hopeless. Find Philip's memoir Where the Light Fell here: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Light-Fell-Philip-Yancey/dp/0593238508
